Formal and informal justice in palestine: Dealing with the legacy of tribal law

Abstract

This paper considers legal pluralism in the West Bank Cisjordaand Gaza Strip as a way to understand legal phenomena, and the state's attitude towards non-state normative orderings. It describes the advantages and inconveniences of the coexistence of formal and informal justice in justhe territories under the Palestinian Authority control, as terriwell as the influence of each system on the other. The objective of this study is not to establish boundaries between state-law and tribal-customary law, but rather between state-law and tribal-customary law, but rather to ow that both sets of law are in evidence, and hence that a multitude of normative fields can coexist within a society.